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Bug 463664

Summary:

[Cocoa][GTK]most of SWT.CURSOR* mouse cursors are incorrect

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Neeme Praks <neeme.praks>

Component:

SWT

Assignee:

Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>

Status:

CLOSED WONTFIX

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

lshanmug

Version:

4.4

Keywords:

triaged

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Mac OS X

Whiteboard:

stalebug

Attachments:

Description	Flags
some code for quickly trying out all different mouse pointers	none

Description Neeme Praks

2015-04-01 06:53:28 EDT

I implemented a NO_TRIM window with custom logic for resizing the window and noticed that the mouse cursor support on OSX is severely lacking.
On Linux, there are also a couple of issues, but OSX is bad.
On Windows, everything looked as it is supposed to look.

The details:
CURSOR_WAIT - I would expect to see the system native colorful "beachball". Not possible?
CURSOR_APPSTARTING - At least, I would expect the same as CURSOR_WAIT (currently, the regular pointer).
CURSOR_HELP - CURSOR_CROSS is shown. Should show a questionmark or something like that.
CURSOR_SIZEALL - CURSOR_CROSS is shown. Should show a cross with arrowheads at each end.
CURSOR_SIZENESW - CURSOR_CROSS is shown. Should show diagonal arrow (NE-SW) with arrowheads at both ends.
CURSOR_SIZENS - Linux-like cursor is shown, horizontal bar in the middle, with up and down arrows extending from it. Should show just vertical arrow with arrowheads at both ends.
CURSOR_SIZENWSE - CURSOR_CROSS is shown.  Should show diagonal arrow (NW-SE) with arrowheads at both ends.
CURSOR_SIZEWE - Linux-like cursor is shown, vertical bar in the middle, with left and right arrows extending from it. Should show just horizontal arrow with arrowheads at both ends.
CURSOR_SIZEN - Linux-like cursor is shown, horizontal bar at the bottom, with up arrow extending from it. Should show just vertical arrow with arrowhead at upper end.
CURSOR_SIZES - Linux-like cursor is shown, horizontal bar at the top, with down arrow extending from it. Should show just vertical arrow with arrowhead at lower end.
CURSOR_SIZEE - Linux-like cursor is shown, horizontal bar at the left, with right arrow extending from it. Should show just horizontal arrow with arrowhead pointing to right.
CURSOR_SIZEW - Linux-like cursor is shown, horizontal bar at the right, with left arrow extending from it. Should show just horizontal arrow with arrowhead pointing to left.
CURSOR_SIZENE - CURSOR_CROSS is shown. Should show diagonal arrow (NE-SW) with arrowhead at lower end.
CURSOR_SIZESE - CURSOR_CROSS is shown. Should show diagonal arrow (NW-SE) with arrowhead at higher end.
CURSOR_SIZESW - CURSOR_CROSS is shown. Should show diagonal arrow (NE-SW) with arrowhead at higher end.
CURSOR_SIZENW - CURSOR_CROSS is shown. Should show diagonal arrow (NW-SE) with arrowhead at lower end.

Linux:
CURSOR_SIZEALL - some hand is shown. I would expect a cross with arrowheads at each end. But maybe this is how it is supposed to look like on Linux.
CURSOR_SIZENESW - some strange cursor is shown. Should show diagonal arrow (NE-SW) with arrowheads at both ends.
CURSOR_SIZENWSE - some strange cursor is shown.  Should show diagonal arrow (NW-SE) with arrowheads at both ends.

Comment 1 Neeme Praks

2015-04-01 06:55:57 EDT

Created attachment 252076 [details]
some code for quickly trying out all different mouse pointers

Comment 2 Lakshmi P Shanmugam

2015-04-01 07:21:31 EDT

(In reply to Neeme Praks from comment #0)
> I implemented a NO_TRIM window with custom logic for resizing the window and
> noticed that the mouse cursor support on OSX is severely lacking.
> On Linux, there are also a couple of issues, but OSX is bad.
> On Windows, everything looked as it is supposed to look.
> 
> The details:
> CURSOR_WAIT - I would expect to see the system native colorful "beachball".
> Not possible?
> CURSOR_APPSTARTING - At least, I would expect the same as CURSOR_WAIT
> (currently, the regular pointer).
> CURSOR_HELP - CURSOR_CROSS is shown. Should show a questionmark or something
> like that.
> CURSOR_SIZEALL - CURSOR_CROSS is shown. Should show a cross with arrowheads
> at each end.
> CURSOR_SIZENESW - CURSOR_CROSS is shown. Should show diagonal arrow (NE-SW)
> with arrowheads at both ends.
> CURSOR_SIZENS - Linux-like cursor is shown, horizontal bar in the middle,
> with up and down arrows extending from it. Should show just vertical arrow
> with arrowheads at both ends.
> CURSOR_SIZENWSE - CURSOR_CROSS is shown.  Should show diagonal arrow (NW-SE)
> with arrowheads at both ends.
> CURSOR_SIZEWE - Linux-like cursor is shown, vertical bar in the middle, with
> left and right arrows extending from it. Should show just horizontal arrow
> with arrowheads at both ends.
> CURSOR_SIZEN - Linux-like cursor is shown, horizontal bar at the bottom,
> with up arrow extending from it. Should show just vertical arrow with
> arrowhead at upper end.
> CURSOR_SIZES - Linux-like cursor is shown, horizontal bar at the top, with
> down arrow extending from it. Should show just vertical arrow with arrowhead
> at lower end.
> CURSOR_SIZEE - Linux-like cursor is shown, horizontal bar at the left, with
> right arrow extending from it. Should show just horizontal arrow with
> arrowhead pointing to right.
> CURSOR_SIZEW - Linux-like cursor is shown, horizontal bar at the right, with
> left arrow extending from it. Should show just horizontal arrow with
> arrowhead pointing to left.
> CURSOR_SIZENE - CURSOR_CROSS is shown. Should show diagonal arrow (NE-SW)
> with arrowhead at lower end.
> CURSOR_SIZESE - CURSOR_CROSS is shown. Should show diagonal arrow (NW-SE)
> with arrowhead at higher end.
> CURSOR_SIZESW - CURSOR_CROSS is shown. Should show diagonal arrow (NE-SW)
> with arrowhead at higher end.
> CURSOR_SIZENW - CURSOR_CROSS is shown. Should show diagonal arrow (NW-SE)
> with arrowhead at lower end.
> 

That is because, Cocoa (NSCursor class) doesn't have the APIs to get those cursors and they would have to be created by SWT.

Comment 3 Neeme Praks

2015-04-01 07:35:10 EDT

Even then, the situation could be improved a lot:

All the cases when CURSOR_CROSS is shown are clearly bugs (except, of course, for CURSOR_CROSS itself):
CURSOR_SIZEALL, CURSOR_SIZENESW, CURSOR_SIZENWSE, CURSOR_SIZENE, CURSOR_SIZESE, CURSOR_SIZESW, CURSOR_SIZENW

The cases of "Linux-like cursor" can be debated -- they do not look like OSX native cursors but at least they convey the meaning. However, I would still prefer if they looked like OSX ones, even if they are actually some custom bitmaps.

Comment 4 Leo Ufimtsev

2015-04-02 12:57:28 EDT

@Linux.

Mouse cursors often come from Gtk themes in form of icons. If an icon for a theme is not defined, you might get odd behaviour.

Would you at all be able to try out alternative themes? (e.g Adwaita usually has a lot of icons). 

Also, what linux/gtk did you test this on. Gtk2/Gtk3, do you know which theme?

Comment 5 Neeme Praks

2015-04-04 04:15:16 EDT

> Also, what linux/gtk did you test this on. Gtk2/Gtk3, do you know which theme?

I simply installed Ubuntu, no special customizations. So whatever themes comes as default on Ubuntu. How can I check it?

Comment 6 Eclipse Genie

2020-12-11 14:04:54 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

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